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Soviet Union: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1970–1990 · 21 observations · gcons

1990
217 billionlocal currency
Change on 1989
+7.7%year on year
Average growth, 1980–1990
+5.8%a year
In US dollars, 1990
$326 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
1990216,825
1989201,295
1988188,100
1987172,000
1986166,000
1985159,300
1984152,824
1983146,608
1982138,578
1981129,771

Sources

  • United Nations1970–1990

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Soviet Union documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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